README

Git Version Control Documentation

Table of Contents

• Overview
• Navigation
• Additional Resources

Overview

Git is the industry standard in version control, that is, book keeping for software engineers. Git allows us to:

• Keep a detailed but compressed history of changes to and releases of our codebases.

• Collaborate in one or multiple areas of our code with multiple developers whom we may or may not even know personally.

• Navigate to different points in the history of our softwares' lifecycle.

One important thing to note is that Git is not GitHub. GitHub is one of many Git clients, simply a user-friendly web interface for interacting with your project with some extra useful extensions provided by the client maintainers (in the case of GitHub, that would be Microsoft). Some other noteable clients are:

• Atlassian BitBucket
• GitLab
• Azure Repos

This documentation is a work in progress. The objectives of this documentation are to:

• Get your feet wet with installing and using Git through a step-by-step example process.
• Provide a styleguide for contributing to ASEI open source projects.
• Provide links to additional resources for learning Git.

Navigation

• Quickstart
• Contribution Styleguide

Additional Resources

• Git Documentation
• Official GitHub Learning Guide
• Git on Windows
  • Tortoise Git
  • Git For Windows
• Interactive Git Learning Tool
• A great article on the Git datastructure if reading articles are more your style :)